Junior doctors are being lured to Australia with a near-£130,000 a year salary and 20 days off a month to ‘travel, swim and surf’.
A job advert from Blugibbon Medical Recruitment, looking for medics with A&E experience, promises rates of more than £1,000 per shift — of which you only have to work 10 each month.
As well as this, doctors who take up the offer are to be given a two-bedroom furnished apartment, use of a car and a bonus of up to £10,000 after one year.
The advert, which is currently on the British Medical Journal (BMJ) careers website, notes that the salary would put the successful candidates in the top 5 per cent of Australian earners.
It comes after tens of thousands of NHS junior doctors in England LinkedIn for consultants took to picket lines last month in pursuit of ‘pay restoration’, with many warning that medics in their droves are leaving the NHS to work for better pay, terms and LinkedIn for customer acquisition conditions in Australia.
Junior doctors are being lured to Australia with a near-£130,000 a year salary and 20 days off a month to ‘travel, swim and surf’
In reference to Adam Kay’s (pictured) popular book and TV series This Is Going To Hurt, the online advert says ‘A&E Registrar sick of the NHS?This isn’t going to hurt…’
NHS junior doctors take part in a march and rally in the centre of Birmingham on April 14, holding signs asking ‘What will you do when we’re gone?’ and suggesting moves to Australia
In reference to former doctor Adam Kay’s popular book and LinkedIn for infographics for online communities TV series This Is Going To Hurt, the online advert states: ‘A&E Registrar sick of the NHS?This isn’t going to hurt…’.
And a picture of a paper advert, shared by Dr Kay on Twitter, also references his piece, saying: ‘Got that Dr Adam K feeling? Come to Australia!’
The advert says it is looking LinkedIn for customer acquisition ‘a couple or two friends’ for the jobs on offer who have had four years’ experience, including in accident and emergency, since graduating from medical school.
It states that the ‘best part’ about the job is only working five night shifts in a row, twice a month — meaning the successful candidate is off the rest of the time to ‘travel or enjoy one of the world’s most liveable (and cost-effective) cities’.
Dr Kay called the advert ‘depressing’ and suggested that the Government address junior doctors’ pay concerns or face them leaving the NHS.
He wrote: ‘How depressing to see this in the BMJ.It’s hard to say those figures don’t present a compelling argument.